Machine for baking altar-bread.



PATENTED JUNE 2,1908.

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v A'.'HORAN. MACHINE FOR BAKING ALT'AR BREAD. APPLIOATION IiLEI) FEB 2, 1907 cess es PATENTED JUNE 2, 1903.

M. A. HORAN, MACHINE FOR BAKING ALTAR BREAD.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2, 1907.

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MATILDA A. HQRAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MAGHINE EBB BAKING AL'llAR-BREAD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2, 1908 Application filed February 2, 1907; Serial No. 355,352.

To all whom it mdy concern}- Be it known that I, MATILDA A. HORAN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of lilassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Baking Altar-Bread, of which the 'following is a specification.

This invention is an improvement upon the apparatus shown in Letters Patent of the United States, No. $4,601, dated May '10, 1892 for baking the waters or altar bread used in churches, and it consists in certain improvements which are illustrated upon the drawings described in the followin s ecification and pointed out in the appende claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of an apparatus embodying the invention. Fig. 2 represents an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 represents the apparatus with the hinged baking late opened. Fig. 4. represents the hinged baking late in detail. -Fig. 5 represents the means y which the hin ed baking plate is mounted. Fig. 6 is a partial plan view of the means shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a sec tional view of the operating pinion and its crank handle.

On the drawings (1 represents a suitable su porting frame upon which is a fixed fiat be m plate I; and ahinged baking plate 0. The plate 0 may be moved from its open position, as shown in Fig. 3, to its closed position as shown in Fig. 1 so as to rest upon the batter which is spread upon the plate I) preparatory to the operation-of baking the bread or wafer; The main portion of the frame a is hollow, means being provided for heating the plate such as gas or oil burners (not shown) so that the two baking plates 1) and 0 may be heated to the desired temperature to cause the baking of the bread or wafers between them.

The hinged late 0 is provided with trunnions c" c whicn are journaled in arms d (see Figs. 1 and 5).. The arms 03 are themselves ivoted noon studs d projecting outwardly rom the suns a with their axes in aline ment. Each arm is rovided with. a projection d through which at d are passed for engagement with a lug d extending outward laterally from the frame a; The end of the screw 02 rests upon the face of the lug, whereas the screw d2 which is {passed loosely thr ugh the extension d of the arm,is-screwed into an aperture in the said" leg. By means of these adjusting the adjusting screws screws, the arms 6!, in which the hinged plate 0 is trunnio'ned, may be adjusted to raise and. lower the plate 0 with respect to the fixed plate I).

Novel means are provided for movingthe hinged plate a from open to closed position and vice versa, said means comprising a crankf composed of a hub portion 2 mounted to turn on one of the studs d, and having a handle 7. To the hub e a pinion e is affixed. The oinion e intermeshes with a pan tial gear 9 which is keyed to the trunnion 0 so that by rotating the crank f, the hinged plate 0 may be swung about its axis of movement to open or close it.

it represents a lever which is composed oi the handle portion 72/, two side arms h 71 and a connecting, cross-bar its, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The said lever is pivotally connected to the frame by pivots 2 projecting laterally outward from the frame. Passed through the cross bar h are the threaded shanks i of roll carriers i in which are journaled the antifriction rolls By rotating said carriers, the rolls if may be ad justed towards and from the cross-bar if, after which they are locked in position by lock nuts The rolls 2' are adapted to ride upon cam ribs 31' formed on one surface of the hinged plate so that when the lever it IS in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the rolls exert a downward pressure through the ribs j upon the hinged late 0, said pressure being sufficient to close y press the batter between the two baking lates, and being capable of regulation by adwstments of the rolls i relatively to the lever.

' It will be observed that from the point r; to the point y in Fig. 1, the surface of each of the cams is concentric to the axes of the studs 7%, so that after the lever it has reached the position shown in Fig. 1, and has therefore exerted the desired ressure on the plate 6, it may be moved to t e ri ht until the rolls i reach the surface of the p ate 0, without increasing or diminishing the pressure. Frovision is thus made for applying the proper pressure to the plate 0 without the necessity of careful adjustment of the lover h to an exactly predetermined position. 4

As it sometimes hap ens that the plates adhere to the batter, F separating them, said means comprising a two-armed lever la projecting laterally through ana erture cin the frame, a pivot is upon whic said lever is pivoted, and a pin provide means for said lever about its pivot and raise the pin 16 1 so as to lift the plate 0 slightly.

The operation of the apparatus above described is as follows,the baking plates 1) and 0 being in the position shown in Fig. 3,

The. outer end of the i out attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made, or all of the modes of its use, I declare that what I claim is z- 1. In an altar bread baker, the combination with a frame adapted tobe heated, of a fixed baking plate-thereon, a hinged baking plate having trunnions, ivoted arms in which said trunnions are ournaled, means for adjusting the free ends of said arms, and gearing for oscillating said hinged baking plate, substantially as set forth.

2. In an altar bread baker, the combination with a frame adapted to be heated, a

; fixed baking plate thereon and a movable and the plates being suitably heated, the batter is poured upon the plate I). The- 7 said fixed baking plate, cam ribs on the crankfis then actuated to move the hinged plate 0 to the position shown in Fig. 1, and

the lever h is moved to the position shown in the last-mentioned figure so as to force the hinged plate 0 downward and compress the batter between the two plates. W hen the.

wafer has been sufficiently baked, the operator swings the lever I: to the left until it en- 5 gages the lever and causes the hinged plate j c to be slightly li'l'ted preparatory to throwj ing the plate back to the osition shown in I 1g. .3 by means oi the cran and gears.

Having thus explained the nature of the said Invention and described a way of con- I structmg and using the same, although wlthbaking plate hinged thereto, of means for adjusting said hinged baking plate relatively to hinged baking plate, a ivoted locking lever, rolls carried by said loc ting lever and adapted to engage said cam ribs, the latter having portions which are concentric with the axis of the lever, and means by which said rolls may be adjusted relatively to said lever to regulate the pressureon the movable plate, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses. MATILDA A. HORAN. 'itnesses:

WILLIAM QUINBY, A. L. Fonson. 

